mgba (deprecated)

Disable date: 2027-05-19

Install command:
brew install mgba

Game Boy Advance emulator

https://mgba.io/

License: MPL-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/mgba.json

Formula code: mgba.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.10.5
head ⚡️ HEAD

Revision: 2

Depends on:

qt@5 5.15.19 Cross-platform application and UI framework
sdl2-compat 2.32.72 SDL2 compatibility layer that uses SDL3 behind the scenes
ffmpeg 9.0.2 Play, record, convert, and stream select audio and video codecs
libepoxy 1.5.10 Library for handling OpenGL function pointer management
libpng 1.6.59 Library for manipulating PNG images
libzip 1.11.4 C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
lua 5.5.1 Powerful, lightweight programming language
sqlite 3.53.4 Command-line interface for SQLite

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.4.3 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
libelf 0.8.13 ELF object file access library

Uses from macOS: libedit

Binaries: mGBA

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